National Guard: ‘We Were Dead In The Water Until Victoria’s Secret Showed Up’

by Kim Bhasin Lingerie to the rescue! Noah Shachtman at Wired has a fantastic story about what happened to the New York Army National Guard’s 69th Infantry Regiment during Hurricane Sandy on Monday night. Related: 11 Surprising Facts About the Victoria Secret’s Angels They were left without power, hot water and most means of communication […]

It’s not just the power Victoria’s Secret helped out with. The crew had previously set up an internet line on a microwave dish on the roof, and put routers in the Regiment’s command center to help with communications. Plus they offered up a forklift – which the Regiment didn’t have – to help out with the food distribution effort.